Following a gut-wrenching home loss to the Atlanta Falcons, one that snapped a three-game winning streak, the New Orleans Saints were hoping to return to their winning ways as they faced the streaking Tennessee Titans in Nashville.
A sleepy game most of the day, the Saints would go down 3-0 early in the first quarter, but respond with a touchdown from Trevor Siemian to Tre’Quan Smith to take a 6-3 lead after a misses extra point. The Titans would eventually answer the Saints’ touchdown with one of their own, heavily aided by an egregiously bad roughing-the-passer penalty after Marcus Williams had intercepted Ryan Tannehill in the end zone.